Nurses with Ogun State Hospital, Ijaye, Abeokuta joined by their colleagues mobilised from other parts of the state, defied the rain today to protest the alleged assault of a final year student nurse by a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Nurudeen Adekunle. Adekunle, a staff with the hospital reportedly slapped the student nurse at the theatre s...
The Nigerian Medical Association has blamed the mass exodus of medical doctors out of the country on the spate of insecurity in Nigeria. The Kogi State Chairman of NMA, Dr. Abubakar Hassan, who spoke to journalists today in Lokoja, about the ongoing nationwide strike embarked upon by the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, lamented that ...
•Doctors strike The federal government has appealed to members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to end their seven-day warning strike. Dr Tunji Alausa, Minister of State for Health, made the call today in Kaduna while visiting the National Eye Centre. According to Alausa, discussions are currently underway to protect the ...
•mpox The Association of Resident Doctors, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (ARD-UITH), has warned Nigerians against consumption of undercooked bush meat, to stem contact with the deadly mpox virus. The union president, Dr Yusuf Muhammed, disclosed this today in Ilorin, urging the people to also avoid contact with dead animals, reports D...
•Siminalayi Fubara Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara has approved the release of over N300 million as grant to 389 medical doctors in the State Civil Service, who are on residency training. The released funds will cover 2023, 2024 Residency Training Grant requirements, with payments ranging from N800,000 to N900,000 per resident doctor f...
•Medical doctors The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has highlighted a recent report showing that doctors and nurses in the public sector have the lowest bribery rate compared to other public sectors. NMA President, Prof. Bala Audu, discussed the findings during a news briefing in Abuja. The report, titled “Corruption in Nigeria: Patterns a...
The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals (OAUTH), Ile-Ife, Osun State, staged a peaceful protest yesterday to demand their outstanding entitlements from the federal government. They also threatened to embark on an industrial action in the next four weeks if their requests are not met, reports N...
•People hold placards calling for better pay for junior doctors Junior hospital doctors in England began a five-day strike today, a week before a general election in which the state of the publicly funded National Health Service (NHS) is a major issue. It follows nearly a dozen similar protests by doctors below specialist, consultant level [&h...
The Ogun State branch of the Nigerian Medical Association Ogun has threatened to embark on industrial action within the next one week over alleged poor working conditions. Speaking at a press conference held at Doctors’ House, Lukosi, Abeokuta, the Chairman of the Association, Dr. Azim Kunle Ashimi, revealed that the 21-day ultimatum given on ...
•Kenyan doctors protesting with placards Kenya’s government has signed a deal with striking doctors, the health ministry announced today, after almost two months of industrial action that left thousands of patients struggling to find medical care. “After 56 days, @kmpdu signs agreement, ending nationwide doctors’ strike,” the ministry said on ...
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